October 2, 2025The Turkish Online Journal of Design Art and CommunicationOpen Access

The Construction of the Myth of Youth and Beauty in Cinema: A Structuralist and Semiotic Analysis of the Film Substance

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GCGamze Yetkin CılızoğluKocaeli Üniversitesi ZDZeynep DONDURUCUKocaeli Üniversitesi AÇAysel ÇetinkayaKocaeli Üniversitesi

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This analysis examines youth and beauty ideals in cinema, revealing cultural impacts on women, suggesting structuralist and semiotic frameworks are vital.

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The analysis reveals the construction of beauty and youth as social ideals for women, shaping their identities.
Key binary oppositions in the film Substance include youth versus old age and natural beauty versus artificial beauty.
Employing Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism and Barthes’s semiotics, the study critiques gender norms in popular culture.
This examination highlights the struggles women face against imposed beauty standards and distorted body perceptions.

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Cılızoğlu et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68de68e583cbc991d0a21167 https://doi.org/10.7456/tojdac.1761339

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This analysis examines youth and beauty ideals in cinema, revealing cultural impacts on women, suggesting structuralist and semiotic frameworks are vital.

The Construction of the Myth of Youth and Beauty in Cinema: A Structuralist and Semiotic Analysis of the Film Substance

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